Lately my storage is increasing without downloading anything at all I cleared cache several times and deleted some items and it still increasing any help?
Kriture said:
Lately my storage is increasing without downloading anything at all I cleared cache several times and deleted some items and it still increasing any help?
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Gallery apps for example crate thumbnails, YouTube and other apps cache files.
Use Apps like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage to identify the junk.
strongst said:
Gallery apps for example crate thumbnails, YouTube and other apps cache files.
Use Apps like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage to identify the junk.
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I cant even download it lol I have no space at all
Kriture said:
I cant even download it lol I have no space at all
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Just uninstall an app and quickly install it. Have you Youtube App for example?
Gonna try it and give you a feedback
strongst said:
Just uninstall an app and quickly install it. Have you Youtube App for example?
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Ok so i think you dont get me my storage keeps increasing without downloading or doing anything I tried diskusage but It didnt help me in anyway i just removed thumbnails and the storage still full asif i didnt remove anything
Kriture said:
Ok so i think you dont get me my storage keeps increasing without downloading or doing anything I tried diskusage but It didnt help me in anyway i just removed thumbnails and the storage still full asif i didnt remove anything
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I get you. The point is you must identify at which position the storage will be filled. In pictures? In download? Is it an app folder?
That is where disk usage can help you to identify where's the culprit. You can also post a screenshot.
Something fills up your storage, yet we don't know what.
strongst said:
I get you. The point is you must identify at which position the storage will be filled. In pictures? In download? Is it an app folder?
That is where disk usage can help you to identify where's the culprit. You can also post a screenshot.
Something fills up your storage, yet we don't know what.
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There
Try clearing your cashe. On my phone I usually have about 200mb of cashe when I clear it (I usually do it about once a week when I decide to download a new game or something).
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There
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WhatsApp seems to be the problem since it's uses more than 7GB on the data partition(apps). Whatsapp media including the database is located on data/media as we can see.
I would recommend to uninstall whatsapp and see if it frees the 7GB under apps according to the screenshot.
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Ok this is weird... Out of nowhere my pictures and wallpaper folders are slowing duplicates of every photo when viewing them in the gallery (3 to be exact). The thing is when I view the folders through a file manager there are no duplicates. If I mount the sd card through the phone, no duplicates. If i pop the card out and put it into a card reader, no duplicates. I have no idea what couldve caused this but its very annoying. Its not the first time this has happened. I tired deleting the thumbnail cache but that did nothing. I'm tired of having to delete and recopy the folders over every thing this happens. Anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it?
Happened to me on a diff ROM, I deleted the dups then later went back into gallery to look at the pics and they were gone, turned out there wasn't dups, just showed them as dups, I deleted the originals. Wasn't happy.
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regP said:
Ok this is weird... Out of nowhere my pictures and wallpaper folders are slowing duplicates of every photo when viewing them in the gallery (3 to be exact). The thing is when I view the folders through a file manager there are no duplicates. If I mount the sd card through the phone, no duplicates. If i pop the card out and put it into a card reader, no duplicates. I have no idea what couldve caused this but its very annoying. Its not the first time this has happened. I tired deleting the thumbnail cache but that did nothing. I'm tired of having to delete and recopy the folders over every thing this happens. Anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it?
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use this thread. I was having the same issue and was going insane!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9011278&postcount=4212
Awesome, Ill give that a try. Thanks!
Tired this and didn't work any other suggestions? dbdata is empty and I deleted the cooliris file. I really dont want to have to reformat and load again. Thanks for any help.
liquidreign said:
Tired this and didn't work any other suggestions? dbdata is empty and I deleted the cooliris file. I really dont want to have to reformat and load again. Thanks for any help.
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Sgs tools has a clear thumbs script, fixes it every time.
http://db.tt/bDOWM4c
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Thanks it worked perfect.
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
That worked great! Thanks
neevz said:
use this thread. I was having the same issue and was going insane!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9011278&postcount=4212
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Thank you!!!! It worked like a charm!!!
robertAndroid said:
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
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Thanks this worked for me also
SGS Tools does the Job
kcp877 said:
Sgs tools has a clear thumbs script, fixes it every time.
h**p://db.tt/bDOWM4c
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The link is long dead, but the App Sgs tools thumbs clear script works 100%
I have had repeat images pop up on occasion only on the external card. Clearing Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - All - Media Storage - Clear Data also does the trick.
Add this to a long list of reasons why
QuickPic is SO MUCH BETTER than the stock gallery.
Try it if you have not.
s15274n said:
Add this to a long list of reasons why
QuickPic is SO MUCH BETTER than the stock gallery.
Try it if you have not.
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True story. havent had issues like these since I started using it.
Is there a method of fixing the problem that doesn't involve screwing up your ringtones and notification sounds? I have deleted the following files twice now, and each time I've had to redo all my ringtone and notification settings:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
I've heard the same needs to be done for this method:
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
I guess this is a good reason to try out Quickpic.
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Is there a method of fixing the problem that doesn't involve screwing up your ringtones and notification sounds? I have deleted the following files twice now, and each time I've had to redo all my ringtone and notification settings:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
I've heard the same needs to be done for this method:
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
I guess this is a good reason to try out Quickpic.
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yeah Quickpic ftw. haven't had a problem on any of my 3 phones since i started using it.
robertAndroid said:
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
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Hi, after doing this and restarting, my Gallery and Music is empty now. I checked the actual folders through file explorer and they are still there, they just do not appear in Gallery and Music any more... It takes about an hours to show up again.
After a few days the duplicates re-appear and I have to go through this process again.... is there anyway to stop the duplicates from recurring?
Any ideas?
Thanks
I had the same problem it used to re appear after clearing including songs for me ..but I forgot what I did .......I might have wiped my cache or changed into different kernel ....but I'm sure I did one of these and till now it din appear
Which cache did you wipe? I'm on a different kernel now and it hasn't been fixed... not sure if it's the kernal causing this issue
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Ok so I have 74mb of space left. And I'm trying to download a 9.xx mb app from the play store. However it says I can't because I have insufficient space available. I don't understand how I don't have enough space st 74 MB to download a 9 mb app. I've cleared cache and everything too. Can anyone give me an answer as to why this is? Fyi the app is the game minibash, if that makes a difference
Menu/ Settings/ applications/ manage applications / All (apps) / Google Play Store / Clear cache
try it
Wheres it trying to install SD card or internal memory? 9mb is the compressed file size, once installed it will be larger.
Maybe android is reserving a certain amount of working space for caches and stuff like that. Can you push some apps to sd to free up some space?
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Ok so I have 74mb of space left. And I'm trying to download a 9.xx mb app from the play store. However it says I can't because I have insufficient space available. I don't understand how I don't have enough space st 74 MB to download a 9 mb app. I've cleared cache and everything too. Can anyone give me an answer as to why this is? Fyi the app is the game minibash, if that makes a difference
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Transfer apps from SD to Phone, or from Phone to SD
Every app that is movable has been moved
any apps on which I can clear the data to free up space, like amazon appstore and play store, etc have been cleared, and I clear the cache like 5 times a day. I don't know what else to do.
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Wheres it trying to install SD card or internal memory? 9mb is the compressed file size, once installed it will be larger.
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It tells me on the play store that the size is 9.02 mb. From the play store page of that app I don't know how to tell if it installs onto the sd card or the phone. Is there a wqy to tell?
How many apps have you downloaded? Free up some space by deleting an app or two that you don't use much. Then download this set it to external and move apps at will to the sd card. You should then have plenty of space.
Ok if you're in this forum you should have the evo 3d too, but if you did you'd know that the app you told me to download is not compatible with the 3vo, so I can't use that to help me since I can't download it.
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Ok if you're in this forum you should have the evo 3d too, but if you did you'd know that the app you told me to download is not compatible with the 3vo, so I can't use that to help me since I can't download it.
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That's interesting, I ran that app for months when I was rooted on the stock rom. Btw yes I have an evo3d.
birddog_61 said:
That's interesting, I ran that app for months when I was rooted on the stock rom. Btw yes I have an evo3d.
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An update then must have made it incompatible if it used to be... Thats how an app is on my phone right now, it has an update but when I go to update it it says its not compatible with my phone so I can't update it. OH well. That'd be a really awesome app cuz i have some apps that are like 10+ mb that are not sd compatible so if I could force them to go there that'd be awesome. But it's not compatible. shoot
http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2011/02/02/android-force-moving-apps-to-an-sd-card/
You might give that a shot, I have no idea how well it works.
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An update then must have made it incompatible if it used to be... Thats how an app is on my phone right now, it has an update but when I go to update it it says its not compatible with my phone so I can't update it. OH well. That'd be a really awesome app cuz i have some apps that are like 10+ mb that are not sd compatible so if I could force them to go there that'd be awesome. But it's not compatible. shoot
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Here
http://db.tt/HYsdtoHC
I've used this app for months without one issue. It's a free app as well simple and it works well.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
carlos64030 said:
No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
carlos64030 said:
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
Do you have a lot of screen shots? Those, I believe, get stored on internal storage.
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jpen said:
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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^^^ Good question!
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
Can u give us a screenshot
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jpen said:
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
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Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
k1mu said:
Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
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Can u give us a screenshot
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Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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jpen said:
Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
jpen said:
I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
jpen said:
Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
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Yea that's a whole lot of wasted space. I'm glad it was easy to clear up! Now, don't forget to click thanks.
TLDR: storage issue when using 3rd party file managers, deleted files do not return to free space, ends up as 'system data' when i checked with diskusage on the appstore. Didn't matter if it was on internal or sd card. Tried to factory reset multiple times still same issue. Anyone else? ><"
Here's the email i shot to LG, still no reply from them, im getting more and more upset with LG each day, even HTC, ****ty Samsung when i had my s3 and Sony Ericsson back in the day responded in a week.
"I visited the service center about 2 weeks back, 19 April, about the storage issue i was facing when using the internal and 3rd party file managers when deleting files where the space taken up by files would be relegated to "system data" instead of free space upon deletion, and i would only get back the free space sometimes when i restart the phone. I have had it factory reset and tested with the staff, who said that the software team would get back to me regarding this as it seems to be an isolated case right after the product launch when i bought it on 16 April. I have not gotten a reply regarding this issue and i would like it solved ASAP, may i know if this is a software issue or hardware issue and what the software team has been able to find out so far? This issue is still present and i am able to isolate this issue mostly to the use of 3rd party file manager/explorers on the Google Play Store. "
Any kind soul can help and try to replicate this issue?
Isn't this a feature of the G5? When you delete apps, they stay for 24 hours and can be reinstalled via the "Uninstalled Apps" icon. The icon only seems to show when I use the default homescreen. So after you delete something, check there and delete it again and it should free the space.
duckysempai said:
Isn't this a feature of the G5? When you delete apps, they stay for 24 hours and can be reinstalled via the "Uninstalled Apps" icon. The icon only seems to show when I use the default homescreen. So after you delete something, check there and delete it again and it should free the space.
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Nono, as in any other file besides apps, i know about that feature. Lets say i delete 5Gb of music, i dont get back that 5 Gb, ends up under system data.
Hmm. Deleted some files with solid explorer and it freed the space for me. Are you rooted? What 3rd party file manager do you use?
duckysempai said:
Hmm. Deleted some files with solid explorer and it freed the space for me. Are you rooted? What 3rd party file manager do you use?
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Hmmm i tried the asus file manager, explorer by speedsoftware and es file explorer. I am really really fed up with the internal file manager. Im in Singapore, Model H860 and not rooted(no bootloader unlock available anyways lol). Im thinking it might be just an isolated case for me, but i'll take a look at solid explorer now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1KCCVIvsY i have recorded the issue i was talking about. Hope this helps to explain the situation.
Hi
Have you find out the reason for this yet?
This is happening to my sister's phone too
dazhu said:
Hi
Have you find out the reason for this yet?
This is happening to my sister's phone too
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Hello, i received notification that LG headquarters have been able to successfully replicate the issue on their end and are *supposedly working on it*, from what i understand it seems to be an underlying issue in terms of their framework coding.
Bloody hell guess this is what i get for being early adopter and having the luck to be an unrecognised beta tester to solve an issue they didnt already fix with a phone that just so happens to have this issue.
mervin989 said:
Hello, i received notification that LG headquarters have been able to successfully replicate the issue on their end and are *supposedly working on it*, from what i understand it seems to be an underlying issue in terms of their framework coding.
Bloody hell guess this is what i get for being early adopter and having the luck to be an unrecognised beta tester to solve an issue they didnt already fix with a phone that just so happens to have this issue.
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This is certainly a silly question; do you have Smart Doctor installed?
kjwaugh said:
This is certainly a silly question; do you have Smart Doctor installed?
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Yes i do, what about it? It merely acts as a diagnostic tool in a sense. Believe me i have exhausted almost all options available to me non root.
mervin989 said:
Yes i do, what about it? It merely acts as a diagnostic tool in a sense. Believe me i have exhausted almost all options available to me non root.
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Just a thought - it's an official LG tool that supposedly takes care of your problem (freeing up space) and I wonder if it also reports (or even notices) the acculmulation of those files. It's logs (if it has any that can be accessed) would point to the problem maybe. I believe you have done everything - I just wonder how LG is diagnosing it.
kjwaugh said:
Just a thought - it's an official LG tool that supposedly takes care of your problem (freeing up space) and I wonder if it also reports (or even notices) the acculmulation of those files. It's logs (if it has any that can be accessed) would point to the problem maybe. I believe you have done everything - I just wonder how LG is diagnosing it.
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Well i have certainly thought about it, but i am unable to dig around much without root access. Thanks for the suggestion
I also face the aame issue on my LG G5 RS988.deleting files from sd or internal,the free space doesnt increase much.any workaround?
ankitsxperiago said:
I also face the aame issue on my LG G5 RS988.deleting files from sd or internal,the free space doesnt increase much.any workaround?
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None other than restarting
I've found that there is a recycle bin of sorts like windows within the file structure. Sometimes mine won't free up the space until that folder is emptied.
The folder is estrongs, has the recycle folder inside.
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How to delete pictures/videos and free space - the hard way
My LG v20 maxed out in storage. I deleted tons of videos and pictures, but it did not free up the space. I called ATT support, but they could not help. So I plugged my phone into my Windows 10 computer and used windows explorerr to look in every folder until I could find the 20-30GB of files that should not have been there. And I found them here!
This PC\V20\Internal storage\Android\data\com.android.gallery3d\files\.trashcan
It turns out that deleting images was just moving them in to this trashcan. I deleted the various folders in here and I got all my space back. Solved (for me at least).
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Hi people!
Anyone found a solution for this? I'm in the same situation here...
I deleted a LOT of images and videos, but it doesn't seem to free space and, of course, I'm running out of free space in the LG G5
PLease Help !!!!